We hosted an exchange student who went to our local public high school. In history he studied WWII, however, his book never mentioned FDR except as the father of the New Deal, which was touted for saving humanity from the evil scourge of capitalistic excess. It never mentioned Harry Truman at all. There were, however, pages and pages about Rosie the Riveter and the origins of feminism. One was left with the impression that women on the homefront won WWII, and all those soldiers were superfluous.
Having a student in the public school was a great reminder of why I homeschool. We won't host again. If that's the level of education the schools offer, I won't subject another student to it.
Was this important? Yep. Should it have been mentioned? Sure. But, should it have been given prominence over the Yalta Agreement, The Miracle at Dunkirk, The Battle of Britan, Patton (who was later proved to be 100% correct), MacArthur, Truman, Montgomery, Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, and so on and on and on..... Nope.
I'm a public school grad and I can still tell you who Crispus Attucks is. (FYI, He's a *BLACK* man who happened to be the first person killed in the Revolutionary War. The fact that he's black, was of some importance, I guess.). However, 'Common Sense' was never assigned reading and most of the knowledge I have of the people of the time - giants, really, like Washington, Greene, Paine, Franklin, and on and on, was aquired on my own. Go figure.
Several exchange high school students were removed from the private unregulated school where my wife teaches, allegedly because their "papers" only allow them to attend specific schools, two public, one originally public but now diocesan. The State Department was blamed by the private exchange student agency (for profit at about $5K per student per year). What can the host parents do, if you know. Feel free to tell me by private FReepmail, if you know. Some of us have the nerve to imagine that if the State of Illinois does not object to our school, it is none of the State Department's business so long as we are not hiding anything. The actual parents and host parents were on our side.